changeadminMadhya Pradesh’s Indore was declared cleanest city of India for the fourth straight year in the Swachh Survekshan 2020 awards announced on the 20th of August.
The Union Housing and Urban Affairs announced results of Swachh Survekshan, the purpose of the exercise was to rank the cleanest and dirtiest cities in India. The fifth edition of the survey covered more than 4200 cities in the country and as many as 1.8 crore citizens gave their feedback.
Cleanest cities of India Ranking (1 million+ population)
Indore was followed by Gujarat’s Surat and Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai in the category where the population is greater than the 10 lakh (1 million) population. Here is the ranking of the top 20 cleanest cities in India.
- Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
- Surat (Gujarat)
- Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra)
- Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh)
- Mysore (Karnataka)
- Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)
- Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
- New Delhi (New Delhi)
- Chandrapur (Maharashtra)
- Khargone (Madhya Pradesh)
- Rajkot (Gujarat)
- Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh)
- Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)
- Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
- Gandhinagar (Gujarat)
- Chandigarh
- Dhule (Maharashtra)
- Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh)
- Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)
- Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)
Other Categories
Dirtiest Cities in Inda
Bihar’s capital Patna was ranked as the dirtiest city, followed by East Delhi in the same category (population over 10 lakh). Here is the ranking of top 5 dirtiest cities in the country
- Patna (Bihar)
- East Delhi (Delhi)
- Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
- Kota (Rajasthan)
- North Delhi (Delhi)
Best Ganga City
Varanasi was adjudged the ‘Best Ganga Town’ in the country, followed by Kanpur, Munger, Prayagraj, and Haridwar.
Cleanest State
Chhattisgarh grabbed the ‘Cleanest State’ award in the category of states having more than 100 urban local bodies, followed by Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
Cleanest City (0.1-1 million population)
Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur is ranked the cleanest city in the category of 1-10 lakh population, followed by Karnataka’s Mysore and New Delhi Municipal area.
Cantonment Areas
The Jalandhar Cantonment Board had been ranked first followed by Delhi Cantonment Board and Meerut Cantonment Board
What Makes Indore become topper in the Cleanest Cities of Inda year after year
“Since 2016, Indore’s municipal corporation (IMC) has eliminated garbage dumps, ensured 100% household-waste segregation and converted waste to usable products, such as compost and fuel. It partnered with non governmental organisations for an awareness campaign to change the behaviour of its citizens, contracted private companies to run some waste management operations, used technology, and improved municipal capacity to ensure the implementation of its waste management plan.”
What it means is that it is not just the government or the municipal body initiative that the city has come out with flying colors from the last 4 years. It is about community partnerships where citizens come out and play a major role in keeping the city clean.
Heartiest congratulations!
Indore is India’s cleanest city 4th year in a row. The city & its people have shown exemplary dedication towards cleanliness. Congratulations to MP CM @ChouhanShivraj people, political leadership & Municipal Corporation for this superlative performance. pic.twitter.com/cg3DH6PnHM— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) August 20, 2020
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